Oregon has become the first state to decriminalize the personal possession of illegal drugs, including cocaine, heroin, oxycodone and meth.
Democrats Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones have become the first openly gay Black men elected to Congress after winning their elections.
Democrat Teresa Myers Ervin defeated Republican Bryan Braddock becoming Florence's first woman, African American mayor.
Brandon Scott has made history. The Baltimore City Council president won the election to become the city's 52nd mayor.
New Jersey voters have approved a constitutional ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and over.
LeBron James teamed up with former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to help ensure that felons in Florida will be able to vote.
An unknown number of African Americans were murdered in a brutal massacre in Ocoee, Florida on Nov. 2, 1920 in what is now called the Ocoee Massacre.
99-year-old Dr. Robert H. Smith Sr., who was born the son of a sharecropper on a plantation, is making sure his voice is being heard.
Students at Asbury Park HS and Ghana did a joint session with Chief of Detectives for the NJ Division of Criminal Justice, Weldon A. Powell
Gospel singing legend and COGIC Bishop Rance Allen died Saturday morning at the age of 71, according to his family.
The teenager who recorded the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May will be honored by PEN America.
